skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we’re running our own inference server because we do nonstandard things in the decoder loop (think logit masking, other types of sampling, etc).
> very poor reputation for build quality and then follow it up with bad service.

> My car has been rock solid

anecdotal evidence is very warped in Tesla land, most forum surfaces people having problems rather than people happily enjoying their cars, the media has also been reporting on every detail of tesla like a hawk giving this perception in my opinion.

I'm willing to change my opinion on data that looks not just at tesla but tesla compared to other car manufacturers
In particular I'm refuting the study that purports to measure NO DIFFERENCE with or without a hood. I am saying that is so far outside the realm of the every man's experience with vent hoods that I think the study is busted in some way. UFP is coming from the food you cook, its irrelevant for gas vs electric right?
There's a link shortener I use occasional. The team offers two services (domains):

domain 1: the shortURL goes directly to the destination site

domain 2: the shortURL takes you to a page that displays the destination URL. The user can opt to click on the destination url. It's a two-step process.

The few times I use an URL shortener, I always use domain2 because of the concerns raised by /u/chipdart. These are concerns I have myself.

Also... a couple of things:

When I was searching for a link shortener, I noted that all of them had a good deal of information about data collected, how/if they use the data, privacy, etc... I was really surprised by all the information collected. There's nothing on your site concerning this.

During my research it was clear that the first types of people that use these services are scammers, malicious people. They swarm new sites like these. They get blocked from other services and are constantly in search of new ones.

There were steps that operators took to make it difficult for these scammers to use the service. I forgot what most of the different strategies were. One person had a good write up about this (was it here on HN?). I remember that a sign-in requirement really helped (which you have).

The service looks useful, otherwise. I really like the idea of it. Good luck!
"Netanyahu assembled a neo-Kahanist fringe coalition as a parliamentary maneuver to keep from losing his post, because it's widely believed he's going to end up in prison as soon as he leaves."

It may be "widely believed" but that doesn't make it true. It's highly unlikely that
Netanyahu would end up in prison. The only case with a real threat of prison (case 4000) has been collapsing steadily since the start, with dismal prosecution witnesses, and judges were pushing the prosecution team for a plea bargain [1] due to the low chances of successful conviction.

It's also clear that the court proceedings would last until the end of the decade, so extending the war by months wouldn't buy him much time. Not to mention that the war cabinet is a unity wartime cabinet that is made up of the main centrist leaders too.

The idea that Netanyahu's war strategy is based on him clinging to power is lazy thinking that keeps on getting trotted out in order to bolster the argument that the war is unjust. In fact, the Israeli public are clearly behind the war aim of dismantling Hamas, the only significant split in public opinion is whether to risk a hostage deal that may not result in many living hostages released in practice and will only encourage further hostage taking by terrorists in the future.

Only ben-Gvir can be accused of having neo-Kahanist tendencies, the rest are "merely" right wing. And forming a coalition with a large parliamentary majority after an election is hardly a "parliamentary manoeuvre", it's democracy and all too predictable after multiple elections and failure for 5 years for centrist coalition to stick together.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecution-rejects-retreat-fr...
Judging by my twitter feed, some scientists are starting to push back on the use of UMAP (and t-SNE.)
With colored pigments (even ideal ones) white light would still need to bounce between all 3 to be absorbed. Some is going to bounce off 2 or 3 and come out colored.
I'm good with attachment when you need to send me a real document, but if the email text itself ends up being multi-megabyte blob because you absolutely must have your name in the signature in blue and italic, then I tend to frown upon this. Over decades of my work I probably sent thousands of emails, yet very rarely if ever I needed HTML capabilities, and pretty much never ones that go beyond very basic Markup formatting.
> If they didn't follow those regulations, what makes you think they'd follow any others?

The point is enforcement. We ban weapons in some areas despite murder being illegal.
MoD Data Breach: UK Armed Forces' Personal Details Accessed In Hack
Robinhood warns of SEC lawsuit (via Wells notice) threat over crypto business
Don't worry, I'm sure the free market will solve this quickly and efficiently, no need for regulations! /s
Sure, go build your own less reliable cloud. But don't pretend that single box pricing is comparable to single cloud service as a result.
Yeah, this is a pretty standard answer to the same market failures that so many people have been talking about recently. It assumes though that low prices are the best possible benefit consumers might get from competition, and it also assumes that megacorps necessarily lead to the lowest possible prices for consumers.

Chokepoint Capitalism is a pretty okay book that kicks the legs out from under both assumptions.
Don't forget the compiler version and compile flags!
This needs to be a part of VSCode
Most popular only because it was included with the OS and most IT departments did not allow use of other browsers. Just because it was the most installed does not make it the most popular. There was an old saying, "Internet Explorer: the most used browser to download another browser."
The addition of Gemini makes the product less appealing to me. I want nothing to do with that product.

The idea of threat intelligence from Google’s global network still sounds tasty though.
I wonder if core.async will be updated to work well with virtual threads? Anyone more involved in Clojure know if it will?
Part of the issue is that it wasn't required at launch, became one of the top 10 games by sales numbers and the first published by Sony to make it to that point on the leaderboards, then Sony stepped in and tried to juice their numbers.

I'm 80% speculating here, but given my conversations with avid Tekken players, PSN's authentication backend is garbage and held together with sticks and discarded chewing gum. It regularly goes down. This, I'm going to speculate, is why after 24 hours on Steam, Arrowhead made it "optional" to use PSN to log in; The backend servers were hurting and they wanted this game in the hands of as many people as was reasonable. The devs asked people to please wait a little while so the services backing it could cool off. I also remember multiple of my PS5 owning friends complaining they couldn't get the game on launch day because of nebulous authentication errors.

70% of Helldivers2 players are on PC. For any Sony executive, the thought of having PSN numbers juiced up to 3-4x the number they currently have from one game is a blank cheque from God himself.

However, since it wasn't required at (modulo a few days of) launch, it got a worldwide following. Problem 2: PSN isn't globally available, unlike Xbox, EA, Steam, etc.

Xbox/Steam/EA/Ubisoft does not care where you are. IF you have money, they will take it. If you can figure out how to log in, they will let you use your account. Microsoft/Steam work so well because you don't have to think about it: you move, update your card, buy games. Done.

If you move from the US to the EU with Sony, that might require you to forfeit all your games because you cannot change the region you are in [1] and so players have had to come up with contorted workarounds to figure out how to make things work. Players often resort to buying PSN Gift Cards and then redeeming them just so they don't have to create a whole new account or maintain two accounts (which violates the TOS) just to play their games. Technically, playing on an account outside its region violates the PSN ToS if you squint right.

Steam/Xbox/etc just shrug and go "whatever. As long as you have a card we can process the payment for, you can have your video games."

This meant that people who weren't in a PSN-covered country (which is a lot of them!) you cannot create a PSN account and thus cannot play the game without violating the TOS of the PSN by using a VPN to create the account. On top of that, the requirements for making a PSN account in some countries requires proffering up quite a bit of PII to third parties for identity verification, such as in Britain, where many users found themselves having to upload a photo of their ID and a picture just to create the account.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/playstation/wiki/guides/psn-regions...
This essentially is how tailscale operates (or did last I was in this space). Home/small use totally free, and experimentation seems encouraged.

> https://tailscale.com/pricing

I have genuinely deployed tailscale in paying locations on basis of my really positive experience on the "Personal" plan, which is effectively almost the whole product for up to three users/100 devices, for free.

I don't think there is a universally right answer for all products/services on this question though.
As someone who works very regularly in email, it really bugs me that every time I see a thread about this topic in Hacker News there seems to be this confirmation bias that this is how the average person uses email in the wild, and I’m just trying to make the point that “Hey, this is a strong minority viewpoint.”

I get that y’all don’t like HTML email, but the fact of the matter is, that was a battle lost 25 years ago, and we need to figure out how to keep what we have working for people who don’t even know how to set plaintext email.

That’s what this particular tool is for.
I'm confused. How is HTML needed to attach a file (or to open the attachment)?
I feel seen. (Author here.)

Indeed, the cost of bollards is _dramatically_ lower than 'not bollards'.

Also, a one time spend for permanent safety, for years or decades. It's a slam dunk.
Gifts? I doubt Musk runs those companies out of the goodness of his heart. He's in it for the money and SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink are products. They're not gifts.
> I'm worried about the new wave of impersonation scams that's coming thanks to voice cloning.

That at least isn’t replicable at mass scale. You’d need to have a training set for each relative you’re pretending to be.

But in general, yes, it’s going to be a mess.
You maybe underestimating the number of people that use things without knowing what said things do, so those things just continue to live and never get migrated away from use.
It certainly was valid according to the original specs. I first saw it as an example over 20 years ago in a debate about whether XHTML should replace HTML 4.0.
Soon your calls won't be safe either; Voice cloning is getting REALLY good.
>1. Hyperparameters really matter

>2. Cluster sizes in a UMAP plot mean nothing

>3. Distances between clusters might not mean anything

>4. Random noise doesn’t always look random.

>5. You may need more than one plot

Oh OK, so this is basically impossible to know if you are learning something or inventing garbage.
You only need a few seconds. If you can access whatsapp shared filed of the victim this may be enough.
If it makes you feel any better, I ended up refunding the game after an hour and a half. It seems extremely repetitive, and like it would only be fun if you have a regular video game group to play with, which I don't have right now. So they didn't end up getting my money anyway.
In both cases, it's post-hoc reasoning to justify something they would have done regardless.
> we make an active choice to create danger and then a second choice not to mitigate the danger.

Precisely! This is why I keep suggesting charges of criminal negligence against city engineers, along side stripping them of sovereign immunity.

> Oh no, Josh, it sounds like you want someone to be responsible for the decisions they make!

Yes, yes I do.

(I wrote the article. You very correctly perceive that two-step choice. make it dangers, keep it dangerous.)
> It's probably a lot easier to prevent pollution in the first place as compared to dealing with it after the fact.

It certainly is but if someone’s informed they’re the consenting adult to make the decision they want.

Interesting venting didn’t make a difference but an air purifier did - this definitely doesn’t sound intuitive to me. Maybe venting shouldn’t be implemented as a hood, but something closer to the burners themselves?
Thanks for sharing this, I'm a long time HH and Common Sense listener but had no clue about this Addendum podcast
Also observing (though this isn't quite the right topic to do so) that a truck as an RV tow vehicle is completely ignored by charging infrastructure. Of course yes you can drop the trailer, but now it's twenty minutes just to get dropped/rehooked.

(Or, hey, just belly up to the charger bar, all 50 feet sticking out who knows or cares where :-) )

Agreed that other infra is awful: have you tried to put air in the rig tires --- at least you can use a 12 V inflator for that.
Discussion [0] (51 points, 9 hours ago, 54 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275235
When connected to a hostile network.
Yep, the target tables on BQ are automatically clustered on the primary key, and there is an option to further partition them on the peerdb_synced_at column. We've seen this reduce replication costs by 50% and also help reduce costs for off-stream transformations. Sharing a customer case study that you might find interesting: :) https://www.peerdb.io/customers/harmonic-customer-story

Regarding the deduplication process, we stage raw CDC data into a staging table and run periodic MERGE operations. The raw table is also auto-clustered and partitioned similar to final table. This helps save costs.
The intentions of some don't change the current reality for many.
My headcanon is that Walmart pay 1) avoids or circumnavigates traditional credit-card payment processing fees and 2) is accessible for lower income and unbanked/under banked customers.
> In fact, it strikes me that "places where you shouldn't try and park a car because your car would probably be hit by a car" would make a pretty decent heuristic for places to start.

Spot on. I'd LOVE to start with bollards, here.

(author of the post. You're picking up exactly what I'm saying. TY.)
The subject matter of the example used to demonstrate the interface is unnecessarily complex. It can be simple yet still stimulate a complex discussion. That would make it easier to understand the interface.
It's performance at 21B parameters is very impressive.

I also like using something between 13 and 70B parameters, since it will run on a 32GB MacBook Pro easily.
In D, all semantic analysis of a template waits until instantiation time. This is because D is designed so that the syntax parsing does not need a symbol table.

In C++, I solved this problem by simply matching { } in the template body, and accumulating a list of tokens within the { }. Then, when instantiated, the template parameter values were known, and the template syntax could then be semantically analyzed. It was simple and effective.

But I was informed that C++ required the syntax parsing and semantics for non-dependent types without instantiation. I asked why, and the answer was "to check for errors without needing to instantiate it." I responded with "of what use is checking it if it is never used or tested?" And that was the end of that.

> The implementation of this is hugely complicated and expensive to maintain

I quietly revolted and refused to implement that disaster. AFAIK there was never a problem with deferring parsing/semantic until instantiation.
Thank you for your thoughtful response! I love your ideas. I will have to come back a few times to process everything but will add a few thoughts now.

Many science-oriented resources, such as iNaturalist, license content with creative commons licenses, but don't permit commercial applications. That prevents me from making use of many of them as part of my site. But in general my aim is also much different, so certainly don't see myself as competing. I want to help people actually obtain and enjoy the plants rather than just study them.

I think your tip about leveraging social media is excellent! I will brainstorm content that users can share out, like you describe. Probably a good starting point is a way to share your wishlist (or current collection).

Your idea about maintaining stock lists and allowing pre-purchasing of plants is really brilliant. I don't know much about the nursery space, but I will try to learn more and think about your idea and other options in the space. What you describe makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate your ideas.
Real time passive radar at home
> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it.

This is patently not true. AWS is very transparent with the pricing and offers a cost calculator. Specifically for EFS, you could have used the EFS service cost calculator before setting off with your endeavours:

https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/EFS

Other services are available at https://calculator.aws/

Any work on any cloud platform has an imperative step: the cost analysis. Once constituents of the solution are finalised (step 1), it is compulsory to proceed to step 2: estimate the charges it is going to cost and decide whether it is affordable or not. Skipping the step 2 and blaming the cloud platform provider business model is not fair and is akin to overspending on a credit card and blaming the credit card issuer for allowing you to do it.

Cloud is not dissimilar from UNIX/Linux – both give one a large variety of elaborate footguns to shoot oneself with, and if they worked as root on a software development project on a UNIX/Linux box and accidentally wiped the root file system out, who is to blame? Since cloud charges are usage based («pay as you go»), the cost estimate is a requisite that can't be avoided unless the budget is unlimited.
On Linux it's

pacmd load-module module-loopback

Last Halloween we hired a fortune teller and I used this with some ladspa plugins and my tts to rig up a self signups from cellphone thing. When the fortune teller pressed the button the next in line was announced in a scary voice over the whole home audio system. After the music decreased in volume of course!
The idea of applying for help to get a home is, frankly, idiotic;

you are reading much more into that statement than it was meant to express.

regardless of what the process is, you still have to talk to a human and ask. that is all that "apply for help" was meant to say. maybe i should have said "ask for help". does that make it more clear?

if someone is unable to ask for help, then that is absolutely a mental health issue.

but also some people just do not want to stay in those places. that may be considered a housing issue in that the wrong kind of housing is offered (shelter instead of home)
if that is your point then, well, i concede that, because i do not know what kind of housing is being offered.

my point is that those who don't have mental health issues also should be able to get the help they need in order to get a new home. if i were kicked out of my home with no money and no friends, i'd walk straight to the next government office and ask for help. i may get the run around until i find the right help but i'd be stubborn until i have at least a temporary place. and then continue until i have a home and the necessary financial support. bureaucracy makes this a rough and undignified process. but anyone failing in that process so that they end up on the street is undoubtedly having their mental health affected.

in places where help is not given, this is neither a mental health nor a housing problem but a problem of broken bureaucracy and lack of compassion. because under housing problem i understand that help can't be given because there is simply not enough space to find homes for all the people who need one. that may be the case in some places, but it certainly isn't in vienna. this is why i rejected the idea that it is a housing problem. it may still be a housing problem in that the wrong housing is offered, but if it isn't a mental health problem with the individuals involved then it is a problem with the wrong help being given, help that is not considering the needs of the individuals.
I haven't experimented with lowering these numbers in maybe two years, but I use BlackHole to route 8 channels from Traktor to Ableton Live (all four decks in stereo as external outputs). I have one big aggregate device with my internal speakers for clock, the BlackHole bridge, and an original RME Babyface for the physical output.

Looks like I have Traktor set to 192 samples @ 44khz. It's showing "4.4 ms processing + 17.6ms output = 22.0 ms" in its UI.

Ableton is set to 128 samples, and showing "Input Latency 4.72 ms, Output Latency 6.05 ms, Overall Latency 10.8 ms".

So maybe 33.8 ms in the whole pipeline? Although I throw audio signal across the room via the Babyface's optical out to a cheap optical -> RCA box, so that's probably adding a little more to my physical environment.

I've had this same Traktor/Live setup going for a long, long time. At one point I even used a physical loopback with the Babyface's optical out/in carrying 8 channels between Traktor and Ableton. That was sadly better than any software available before BlackHole. It was solid, although a bit higher latency, and it's nice to be able to use the optical out for its intended purpose!

I used to get very occasional crackle this BlackHole setup, until I tried a random tip of using the built-in speakers as the clock source on an aggregate device. It's been rock solid since. I could probably lower sample buffers even further these days (M3 Max)...
> The line that "went make X% as much as men" is widely spread

It's not "widely spread", it's widely researched. Show me a study that explains the pay gap as owing to mostly to behavior.

You've provided post-hoc academic rationale, rather than something the average person would have been operating under. People simply do not make decisions the way you seem to be under the impression of. I'm sure the average slave owner used your explanation rather than believing that subset of the population was sub-human chattel.

An example of a behavioral difference is salary negotiation, where assertive women are viewed negatively while a man chest-thumping is viewed positively. Tell that woman who took a lower salary because of cultural stigmas and traditions your rationale and see how far that goes. I've been in the room when a man waved off a woman because of such behavior.

> You're asking me to prove a negative.

I'm asking you to back up your claim with evidence, which you have thusly been unable to do. What you have done is nitpick specific details like that's a gotcha, rather than owing to statistics and population sampling.
A great idea.

Some personal thoughts:

1. I would like to be able to see all the comments from selected people (myself by default).

2. I would like to be able to un-conclude a thread for the fat-fingered among us.

3. As I hover over the document, if there are comments, I would love to see the comment count to judge the activity (or something to show hotspots -- now or over time).

4. I would like to be able to start a discussion with an external markdown file.

5. An API to access updates (including real-time changes) would be excellent.

I've also dropped these in the Github comments.